10-26-2011, 06:08 PM
So in preparation of my Exploder injectors arriving (please be before the weekend! *crosses fingers*) I decided to remove my fuel rail.
3 bolts, 3 screws, two QD fuel line fittings, 6 injector plugs and the bitch was out. There was NO pressure at the fuel line schrader valve, not that that's any surprise. However, there was fuel in the rail, so I put a little plastic cup underneath the rail where I laid it, to catch the excess...
...because I am a dumbass. Anyway, good news, we'll see if my floor holds up to gasoline and engine degreaser, because I had to clean up all the gasoline that was piddled on the floor, lol.
Anyway, took me about a half hour start to finish, and the hardest part was getting those thrice-damned injector harness clips off the injector plugs. I only lost one, the first one, before I devised a method to have them not fly across the garage. Fuckin' deutchlanders.
Anyway, this is what it looks like with no injectors:
![[Image: IMG_0527.jpg]](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g271/MMRex/ReXJ/IMG_0527.jpg)
The offending injector:
![[Image: IMG_0525.jpg]](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g271/MMRex/ReXJ/IMG_0525.jpg)
See how one is all dry and the other is soaking wet? Now, I can't really even tell if the injector is cracked or if the o-rings are bad, but either way it is just as much effort to replace 12 o-rings as it is to replace 12 o-rings and 6 injectors. Since my new injectors are slightly bigger AND have are 4 hole vs single hole. And more is better:
![[Image: IMG_0526.jpg]](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g271/MMRex/ReXJ/IMG_0526.jpg)
It all went pretty well, I'm hoping the install goes equally easy. I bought a fuel line QD tool, turns out I didn't need it. It'll probably be useful anyway, however, on some future project, so I might as well keep it. However, I did break something:
![[Image: IMG_0528.jpg]](http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g271/MMRex/ReXJ/IMG_0528.jpg)
This vacuum hose was disconnected, but the plastic has broken off inside it...and I don't know where it went! It leads from the map sensor on the firewall and goes...? I mean obviously to the throttle body, but I can't find the "broken" nipple bit.
Anyway, here's hoping my new injectors come before the weekend. I'm sure julie is getting tired of getting up at 0dark30 to take my ass to work.
3 bolts, 3 screws, two QD fuel line fittings, 6 injector plugs and the bitch was out. There was NO pressure at the fuel line schrader valve, not that that's any surprise. However, there was fuel in the rail, so I put a little plastic cup underneath the rail where I laid it, to catch the excess...
...because I am a dumbass. Anyway, good news, we'll see if my floor holds up to gasoline and engine degreaser, because I had to clean up all the gasoline that was piddled on the floor, lol.
Anyway, took me about a half hour start to finish, and the hardest part was getting those thrice-damned injector harness clips off the injector plugs. I only lost one, the first one, before I devised a method to have them not fly across the garage. Fuckin' deutchlanders.
Anyway, this is what it looks like with no injectors:
The offending injector:
See how one is all dry and the other is soaking wet? Now, I can't really even tell if the injector is cracked or if the o-rings are bad, but either way it is just as much effort to replace 12 o-rings as it is to replace 12 o-rings and 6 injectors. Since my new injectors are slightly bigger AND have are 4 hole vs single hole. And more is better:
It all went pretty well, I'm hoping the install goes equally easy. I bought a fuel line QD tool, turns out I didn't need it. It'll probably be useful anyway, however, on some future project, so I might as well keep it. However, I did break something:
This vacuum hose was disconnected, but the plastic has broken off inside it...and I don't know where it went! It leads from the map sensor on the firewall and goes...? I mean obviously to the throttle body, but I can't find the "broken" nipple bit.
Anyway, here's hoping my new injectors come before the weekend. I'm sure julie is getting tired of getting up at 0dark30 to take my ass to work.
1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442